Does anyone know the best glue to use, that is easily available, to stick a heel back on a shoe?
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Shoe adhesive
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Polyurethane glue's good for that sort of thing - flexible and gap- filling.
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will it bond plastic & rubber ?
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Certainly does some plastics and some flavours of "rubber" - I've used it to fix the boy's rugby boots and they lasted half a season until he grew out of them.
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Yes, but this is cobbler's PU glue (solvent-based, white, flexible when dry) rather than wooodworker's PU glue (water-cure, brown, foams and is rigid when dry).
Cobbler's PU is hard to find, except in disposable (non-resealable) tubes in sets with rubber replacement soles.
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I used carpenter's glue and it worked fine.
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Don't walk in puddles.
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I recently used McNett's Freesole (available from outdoor/walking/ camping type shops) to stick the sole back on my wife's walking boots. It's a clear urethane adhesive and seems to work very well.
Graham
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'Shoe Goo' - excellent stuff.
Mathew
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'Shoe Goo' - excellent stuff.
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Said the walrus.
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It's probably better actually.
Most shoes are built down to a price.
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Aren't they just. The Vimes theory of shoe economy isn't far wrong.
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I thought that they were built on a last
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I need to do the same with a pair of my sandals whose soles started to come off when wading in the sea recently (in the southern hemisphere I hasten to add!)
The most mentioned products in this thread seem to be Shoe Goo and McNett's Freesole. Anyone got any views about the relative merits of these two?
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They may well be, but not TO last..
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I user old fashioned (solvent) evostik.
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Malachi 020:016
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They are both, as far as I can recall, polyurethane adhesives. Shoe Goo is a thick, non-foaming version that can be used to repair cracks and holes, although given how cheap shoes are one has to be a serious skin-flint to use the stuff.
Gorilla glue and the like can be used to repair separated soles and heels but these polyurethane glues foam which makes them useless for gap filling.
All IMO, etc.
The prices charged for small quantities of shoe repair glue are laughable. It's better to buy from a supplier specialising in the shoe repair trade.
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